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Why do you miss putts and why don't you improve?
Our Philosophy
We all want to hole more putts. Doing so is probably the easiest way to lower your score. Have you ever asked yourself why you miss a putt? Think back to the last time you were out on the course and missed. Or when you arrived early and spent half an hour on the putting green to improve your putting. How many times did you ask yourself, why did that putt miss? If you dont know the answer how are you going to improve?
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By now you will be thinking back and perhaps thinking something like 'ah, I pulled that putt, must have moved my head', 'I pushed it through the break', or 'I took it back far too much on the inside'. You may be correct but how can you be sure? Whether its on camera phone at the range or on a lesson with your PGA Professional we have all seen our swings on camera and realised it looks nothing like what we imagine in our heads. Multiple issues could cause us to miss putts. Green reading, alignment, putter face angle at impact, putter path, where we hit it on the club face, how hard we hit the putt, and of course the unrepaired pitch mark all play a role in our ability to hole a putt. But for your to improve your must be gaining feedback on some of these areas, otherwise what are you aiming to achieve when you practice? Given all the areas mentioned above it is obvious that it is impossible to hole every putt but how can we practice in an informed way to maximise our chances.
Gaining Feedback
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Not knowing why you miss putts means that we cannot be certain you are practicing the correct area that will make you improve. The putter face angle at impact has undoubtedly the biggest impact on the starting direction of ball (between 83% - 92% depending on which piece of research you read) compared to the path of the putter. Looking at this in isolation it would make sense to practice solely on face angle. Ensure that it is pointing at the target regardless of what my path/plane/alignment/strike point on the face is. This will undoubtedly go some way to improving your putting but to disregard the other areas is to disregard perhaps one of our greatest assets, our reactive human nature. If for example your natural path is out to in then you are always reacting to correct this error by opening the clubface. The first time you might not open it enough and miss left. The next putt you overreact, open the face too much and miss right. The next you figure it out, open the correct amount and hole it. This reactive nature is the reason you hole putts and if used correctly can be our biggest asset to improving. However used in this way it isn't really giving you feedback without knowing the other areas aren't having any impact. For all we know at this point the face angle on the putt that went in could actually have been more closed than the one that finished right of the hole, but we had a better path, aligned further right and hit it off the toe. To maximise our chances of improving we need to work on as many areas as possible at the same time, or even better ensure that we are maintaining consistency in as many areas as possible, whilst improving on another.
What does the Plane Face Putting Aid do?
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The Plane Face Putting Aid will give you arguably the greatest levels of feedback compared to any other putting aid. The two rails create a plane for your putter to travel on (around 70 degree as nearly all putters are made on a 70 degree lie angle). Ensuring the putter shaft stays on both rails throughout the stroke will improve the path of you putter by maintaining the same plane throughout the stroke. If there was only one contact point for the putter to touch then we would not know for certain that we have maintained the same plane. Maintaining the same plane also helps to ensure that we hit the ball out of the centre of the putter as you cannot move the hands towards or away from the ball during the stroke. Having isolated the putter's path and strike point on the face we are now in a position to learn how to start the ball on the correct line by hitting it through the putting gate. Now, for the first time your brain can start to learn constructively in a reactive manner. through gaining feedback on at least three areas of putting at the same time. You will finally be able to answer the question, why did I miss the putt? and for the first time know that you are working on the correct area to learn how to improve and hole more strokes.
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